Top 747 Righteousness Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Each of us must decide whether it is more important to be proved right or to provoke righteousness.

No man can put on the robes of Christ’s righteousness till he has taken off his own.

None are so sinful that they cannot find strength, purity, and righteousness in Jesus, who died for them.

Personal righteousness is a choice. Faith is a gift from God, and one possessed of it can receive enormous spiritual power.

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

Filial Piety is the principle of Heaven, The righteousness of Earth, And the (proper) conduct of the people.

The Bible says, "For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost"

For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.

We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness.

Christianity doesn't offer a smooth flight; it provides a safe landing. The promise of Jesus is not one of happiness, He promises righteousness.

True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness.

Don’t get discouraged if you stumble at times. The first step to walking in righteousness is simply to try.

A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.

Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.

But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness.

The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

Punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment.

I would employ the wise and strong of the empire, using righteousness to lead them. In this way, nothing is impossible.

In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death . . . the gift of righteousness and eternal life.

"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

When you get so tired that you realize you cannot generate righteousness, come on back and I'll tell you about a gift.

The thing I hate the most in any kind of writing is self-righteousness. Where you pretend you don't have the same kinds of flaws your subject has.

I like fish, and I also like bear's paws. If I cannot have the two together, I will let the fish go, and take the bear's paws. So, I like life, and I also like righteousness. If I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go, and choose righteousness.

It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

Self-righteousness exclaims, "I will not be saved in God's way; I will make a new road to heaven; I will not bow before God's grace; I will not accept the atonement which God has wrought out in the person of Jesus; I will be my own redeemer; I will enter heaven by my own strength, and glorify my own merits." The Lord is very wroth against self-righteousness. I do not know of anything against which His fury burneth more than against this, because this touches Him in a very tender point, it insults the glory and honor of His Son Jesus Christ.

But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.

Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!

I went into politics for the reasons most people do: ambition, self-righteousness, and a desire to help others.

Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.

More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

I was deepening my understanding of what we call the cultural commission, the command to take dominion and bring righteousness to our culture.

Building our homes as fortresses of righteousness for protection from the world takes constant labor and diligence.

America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.

When you get honest with God, you can exchange the fig leaves you used to cover your sin with the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

Marcus Garvey does not give a snap for anything human but justice, and that which is based upon righteousness.

The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends toward the sun of righteousness.

The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down; and the armed battalions of God march over him.

Jesus Christ does not save the worthy, but the unworthy. Your plea must not be righteousness but guilt

As children of the Lord we should strive every day to rise to a higher level of personal righteousness in all of our actions.

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.

The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

There must be a corps that will battle for righteousness, for there are endless battalions who serve unrighteousness.

The Lord needs women who will step forward in righteousness and say, 'Here am I, send me.'

In spinning a robe of your own righteousness, before the sun goes down you will find it all unraveled.

The values a man must cherish as his life-breath are: Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non violence.

May we be faithful followers of Christ, examples of righteousness, thus becoming lights in the world.

To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.

When you want to become free, your righteousness and anger are much less interesting than they used to be.

He that serves God is resigned up into him, and in all things has respect to truth and righteousness, and will promote that.

Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of 'holistier than thou' self-righteousness has become fashionable.

This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus.

Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.

We have no excuse to deviate from the paths of righteousness. If we hold fast to the iron rod, we cannot be deceived.

And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth!

The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.